G5 C5 G5 C5 G5 C5 G5 C5 G5 C5 G5 C5 There's a place I can get to G5 C5 G5 C5 Where I'm safe from the city blues G5 C5 G5 C5 G5 And it's green and it's quiet C5 G5 C5 Only trouble was I had to buy it CHORUS: C5 C5 C6+9 C5 C5 E5 E5 And I'll do anything I got to do C5 C5 C6+9 C5 C5 E5 Cut my hair and shine my shoes E5 C5 C5 C6+9 C5 C5 E5 And keep on singin' the blues E5 C5 riff G5 C5 G5 C5 If I can stay here in Johnny's garden As the swift bird flies over the grasses Dipping now and then to take his breakfast Thus I come and go and I travel But I can watch that bird and unravel ...CHORUS With his love and his sharing He puts his life into beauty sharing And his children are his flowers And they give me peace in quiet hours ...CHORUS CHORDS: G5 C5 G5 C5 C6+9 RIFF: E -3---3----3-----0-----0-- ------------------- | B -3---1----3-----1-----1-- -1-----------1--1-- | G -0---0----0-----0-----2-- -0------0h2--2--0-- | D -0---3----3-----0-----0-- -2--0h2------------ | A -x---x----x-----3-----3-- -3----------------- | E -3---3----3-------------- ------------------- |